President Bush signed a bill authorizing the construction of fencing along nearly 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. The bill calls for at least two layers of reinforced fencing and other security measures. Where fencing is not practical, the other measures, including cameras, lighting, sensors and surveillance, may be employed. - CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/26/border.fence/index.html
"A fence will slow people down by a minute or two, but if you don't have the agents to stop them it does no good. We're not talking about some impenetrable barrier," said T.J. Bonner, who heads the National Border Patrol Council, the AP reported. -CNN
I think the formula for fear is very simple: Increase the security = increase the fear. The more self-enclosed and paranoid a country generally becomes, the easier it is to scare it. Just say BOO and they will jump and search your body and history. Sadly, it is not only the USA's problem: the disease spreads.
Luckily they keep the balance on that side. Those of us who are on this side, searching for openness and peace, can keep doing what we think is best. At the end all that will remain will be their karma and insanity.
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i wanted toi tell you about one similar example (although i'm sure Ines knows much more about it than me):
there are two Spanish towns called Melilla and Ceuta on the coast of North Morocco. In the late 1990s was built a separation border fence, a barricade equipped with regular watch-posts, security video cameras and fibre-optic sensors.
there are poor Africans sittinga round the fence and just wating for their time to attempt to cross the high barbed-wire fence. in occasional stormings people are always killed, for trying to get on to European soil.
now Spain is planning to build a third, hi-tech fence.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30546 - it's a quite informative small article called "From teh BErlin Wall to Ceuta and Melilla" on that subject. with a quote from the vice-president of the European Comission: "Europe cannot become a fortress".
at the same time with globalization harsh differentiation is taking place.
Yes...well....Spain is one of the european borders, so although the immigration matter is a global one it is especially complicated for us.
Like a year ago there was a big issue about this fence, since there was a night where hundred of africans tried to jump the fence at the same time. The border gards, were not so prepeared for this so they reacted just shooting them. There were some killed and that opened a big debate in Spain.
The Melilla and Ceuta topic is complicated, and actually not really known by the most of the spanish, me among them. I don't know why they are there, why they belong to us, not even when they became spanish. But for those cities' people the thing of being spanish and not from Morocco is a huge topic....it means that they are european and not african....and THIS is the question...The southest spanish point and the northest african one are separated only few kilometers, but that physical distance means a huge separation in reality....and that fence is the materialisation of that.....the sign.....Obviously not the solution, never will be.
Besides this fence, we also have the "cayuccos" and "pateras" problem, meaning the africans that arrive to Spain in shitty boats. We have a lot of news and stuff about this in TV and newspapers...This is the most graphic example of the inmigration. But, the very most of the inmigrants that arrive to Spain come by plane or car as tourists.....
I found this video in YouTube that might give you a vision of the issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE31_zR2AfE
When will we understand that political division is created by men, and shouldnt determine whether one is worth it to be here or the other?
The politics of fear are really a threat to humankind- they are detached from any reason or sense. Until they collapse and the wheel turns the other way, they will keep building against fear and fear will spread even more.
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